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Man Tapped To Draw The New Wonder Woman Doesn’t Want Her To Be “Feminist”
David Finch, the artist who’s taking over DC Comics' Wonder Woman, says he wants the feminist icon to be “strong"—but not "feminist.”
He said: “We want to make sure it’s a book that treats her as a human being first and foremost, but is also respectful of the fact that she represents something more. We want her to be a strong—I don’t want to say feminist, but a strong character. Beautiful, but strong.”
“That’s pretty funny,” Kristy Guevara-Flanagan, who created the film Wonder Women! The Untold Story of American Superheroines. “She’s an obvious feminist role model for many people for many reasons…It’s like getting rid of her kryptonite to say that about her.”
Source: Mother Jones, image by DC Comics
"Women are underrepresented in [STEM] fields so [Marvel] is trying to encourage girls to study them more, because obviously there’s no reason why they shouldn’t be. And that’s really exciting because that’s exactly what you want with these kinds of movies. They’re big and they’re fun and if you can have a little bit of impact on a young girl seeing them and saying ‘wait, that’s possible too,’ then that would be really cool."-
Natalie Portman speaking about her role as Jane Foster in Thor: The Dark World
(CNN)
“Tons of people are saying a woman can’t star in a superhero movie. (Just like they probably said an interconnected superhero universe couldn’t happen at the movies.) Stan Lee says there’s no need. But a good superheroine movie is necessary and doable. Here are eight ways to make a movie about a female superhero movie happen.”
8 ways to make a movie about a female superhero happen (i09)